{"id":65362,"date":"2017-11-14T16:10:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T21:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65362"},"modified":"2017-11-14T18:20:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T23:20:32","slug":"wsj-this-sunday-some-churchgoers-may-choose-to-pack-guns-with-their-bibles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65362","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) This Sunday, Some Churchgoers May Choose to Pack Guns With Their Bibles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As he does every Sunday, the Rt. Rev. Council Nedd II, an Anglican rector, put on his collar and robes to offer Mass at his central Pennsylvania church. Now, he is considering wearing something else with his religious vestments: his handgun.<\/p>\n<p>As a Pennsylvania state constable, Dr. Nedd can bring his gun just about everywhere\u2014to the grocery store, to the park and to synagogues and other houses of worship, where he often acts as security. His church was the one place where he went unarmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWeapons do not belong in church,\u201d he said. But, as a bishop, he has \u201ca responsibility to protect the flock,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Nedd said he didn\u2019t bring his weapon to church this Sunday, but plans to in the future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/this-sunday-some-churchgoers-may-choose-to-pack-guns-with-their-bibles-1510488001\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As he does every Sunday, the Rt. Rev. Council Nedd II, an Anglican rector, put on his collar and robes to offer Mass at his central Pennsylvania church. Now, he is considering wearing something else with his religious vestments: his<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65362\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,108,441,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65364,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65362\/revisions\/65364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}